Adopting a pet from Tri-County Humane Society can be an exciting, whirlwind experience. This adoption subject even got to participate in Santa Paws holiday pictures just minutes after his adoption was completed! Thankfully, his life since adoption has been picture-perfect.
Hank, a 1-year-old Lab mix, came to the shelter in mid-November. We called him “Hankie” because there already was another Hank. He was adopted three days later, and on the way out, he and his new family posed for Santa Paws, TCHS’ holiday portrait fundraiser.
“I had been looking at dogs that entered the shelter and knew he was the one at first sight. He rode home after his pictures with Santa at the shelter right after his adoption just like he was meant to be with us."
Hank (he’s back to Hank now, not Hankie) shares his home with a senior German Wire-Haired Pointer. "We are retired educators still working part-time in our school districts, so he has a lot of time with us. My husband has been training him for pheasant hunting as he was born to retrieve, and he loves it.”
Hank has been a comfort to his new family after the loss of their 15-year-old dog, too. “I know a furry family member cannot be replaced, but Hank’s loving, bighearted, smart, and exuberant personality won us over immediately. I have slipped several times and called him the name of our dog that passed away at the age of 15 years this past June (when he shows the same personality traits, even though they are different breeds).” Hank, his family wrote, is an “angel dog of sorts.”
